"We totally underestimated the importance of the parachute," especially for people who have not flown before, said Steve Hanvey, president of SATSair.

"He totally underestimated the reaction," Ms. Burch said.

"I totally underestimated him," Rahman said.

To be blunt, they had totally underestimated their enemy.

With what he realized later had been sublime innocence, or else self-confidence verging on arrogance, Beenay had totally underestimated their power.

But HMG totally underestimated the coolness of the banks.

He disliked clandestine ops on principle, and the superiors who'd explained how this was supposed to work had either totally underestimated the narrow-minded hesitancy of the Masadans or else lied when they briefed him.

Also, I think they are totally underestimating the importance of global warming as a risk.

My enemies totally underestimated me.

People are excluded or dismissed, instead of taking advantage of their knowledge, their meticulous work, and their reliability, and it is quite likely that their innovative potential is being totally underestimated.